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[–] average650 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As has been asked every time, how many are bots?

[–] MicroWave 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah there are some irresponsible instance owners out there letting bots register.

[–] Dawn 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

yeah, the largest one is k6qw, with 52 thousand users, but only 4 users online atm compared to lemmy.world, 42.8 thousand users, 5.63 thousand online

edit: source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

[–] Poiar 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, if these instances don't get their act together, I'd vote on my instance to defederate from it.

I'm usually not one calling for defederating, it seems like a liability, though.

[–] devfuuu 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The beauty of the fediverse and the power of ownership is being able to take decisions like these.

[–] jandar_fett 1 points 2 years ago

It's like digital socialism! (Or something)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My thought were the same way about not wanting to call for defederation, but after thinking about it and owning an instance of my own now, I realize that that is the whole point. Instance owners can block entire instances from federating with them. If every instance blocks an instance that is a bad actor then they literally can't federate with anyone and that solves the issue.

[–] phamanhvu01 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] intelati 18 points 2 years ago

Exactly what a bot would say

[–] MicroWave 12 points 2 years ago

Welcome, non-bot!

[–] d00phy 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Me either. I am a human person just like all of you!

[–] ki77erb 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Welcome fellow human. It is great to be a human is it not?

[–] DAC_Protogen 8 points 2 years ago

floppy disk drive noises

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello fellow human. I too identify as homo sapien.

[–] d00phy 3 points 2 years ago

So many of us good people. It is nice.

[–] grue 4 points 2 years ago

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess it's kind of like the saying bad ice effects both teams. Both reddit and the federation are going to have bots. Competitors aren't differentiating bot accounts vs user accounts, so why should the federation?

How many people browsed reddit without an account, but made one for lemmy to show support?
At least one.

[–] average650 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure that reddit and others are aware of bots and doing things to control that situation.

[–] lemme_at_it 2 points 2 years ago

Musk complained and tried to worm his way out of the Twitter deal by accusing them of padding user accounts with bots. With an upcoming IPO, Reddit may not be interested in culling bots right now - not when some of us have already fleddit.😅

I do concur though, the fediverse does need to find a way of getting owners doing captcha or something similar by default.